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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
..... Pull the lawn furniture inside. That's got to take whole hour. Fill the cars with gas. Another hour. What else does anyone do?
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I've been thinking about this too. Preparing for the storm, basically all we plan to do is bring in the lanai furniture and our two potted plants. That should take about 20 minutes tops.
Time and money spent purchasing bottled water is really not necessary. We all have perfectly good tap water that we can stock pile before the storm. I would imagine most everyone has empty receptacles to put tap water in to. Fill the tub with water to use for flushing toilets.
We don't plan to board up windows. Should we? We don't have hurricane shutters on our home. How many people in TV do? The Villages doesn't board up windows on rec centers and such so I would imagine it really isn't necessary.
We gassed up the car already so that was done a few days ago when everyone else was at the gas stations. I know now we could have waited to do that and that took about 20 minutes. Gas lines during Andrew were MUCH worse and folks were running out gas in their cars as they waited in line. Their cars had to be pushed to the pumps.
We always have plenty of batteries so no need there to spend any time trying to find batteries on empty store shelves.
Total hurricane preparation for us is less than an hour. Is there something we should be doing that I haven't mentioned?
Our home was 60 miles from the eye of Andrew when it came ashore in south Florida. Our community suffered downed palm fronds and that was all. Hope that is all we have here as a worse case scenario.